Thrasybulos

Family: Milesian · Role: despot of Miletos · First appears: Book 1 · §19–27

Life events

• Periander informed Thrasybulos about the oracle given to Alyattes.(Book 1 · §19–27 · 📍 Miletos)
  • With: Periander
  • “Periander the son of Kypselos, being a special guest-friend of Thrasybulos the then despot of Miletos, heard of the oracle which had been given to Alyattes, and sending a messenger told Thrasybulos”
• Alyattes sent a herald to request a truce with Thrasybulos and the Milesians.(Book 1 · §19–27 · 📍 Miletos)
  • With: Alyattes
  • “Alyattes, when this answer was reported to him, sent a herald forthwith to Miletos, desiring to make a truce with Thrasybulos and the Milesians”
• Thrasybulos gathered provisions and arranged a public feast to make Miletos appear prosperous.(Book 1 · §19–27 · 📍 Miletos)
  • “he gathered together in the market-place all the store of provisions which was found in the city, both his own and that which belonged to private persons; and he proclaimed to the Milesians that on a signal given by him they should all begin to drink and make merry with one another.”
• Alyattes and the Milesians made peace as guest-friends and allies.(Book 1 · §19–27 · 📍 Miletos)
  • With: Alyattes
  • “And after this the peace was made between them on condition of being guest-friends and allies to one another”
• After consulting Thrasybulos, Periander began severe abuses against Corinthian citizens.(Book 5 · §93–94 · 📍 Corinth)
  • With: Periander
  • “So Periander, understanding that which had been done and perceiving that Thrasybulos counselled him to put to death those who were eminent among his subjects, began then to display all manner of evil treatment to the citizens of the State”

Book 1 · §19–27

• friends with Periander “Periander the son of Kypselos, being a special guest-friend of Thrasybulos the then despot of Miletos”
• friends with Alyattes “and after this the peace was made between them on condition of being guest-friends and allies to one another”
• enemies with Alyattes “With regard then to the war waged by Alyattes with the Milesians and Thrasybulos things went thus.”

Book 5 · §93–94

• with Periander (Thrasybulos conveyed counsel to Periander through a messenger.) “For he sent a messenger to Thrasybulos and asked what settlement of affairs was the safest for him to make, in order that he might best govern his State: and Thrasybulos led forth the messenger who had come from Periander out of the city, and entered into a field of growing corn; and as he passed through the crop of corn, while inquiring and asking questions repeatedly of the messenger about the occasion of his coming from Corinth, he kept cutting off the heads of those ears of corn which he saw higher than the rest; and as he cut off their heads he cast them away, until he had destroyed in this manner the finest and richest part of the crop.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Histories. Made with Rho MD.